A 3rd Neuroscience & Philosophy of Consciousness Meetup

Hello everyone, this is a new 3nd Meetup on the Philosophy of Consciousness (2022) and Neuroscience.

In this meetup, we’ll continue considering questions in Philosophy of Consciousness, with a focus on Neuroscience (as the source of our subjective experiences). In our 2020 meetups, we considered questions about defining human consciousness; and we also discussed materialism vs. dualism.

But, in this 2022 version, we will also include discuss some neuroscientific processes, which should generate human consciousness states.

Participating in this meetup can help us understanding these questions: How can some of the structure and dynamics of the brain, in connection with the body and environment, account for the subjective properties of consciousness? As in earlier discussion, this is the “Hard Problem” of Consciousness.
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If you'd also like to catch up on the 2nd Meetup (of this topic, here it is:

o My name is Su Turner; and I live in Kirkland, WA. Though I completed my PhD in Philosophy at U Washington; I left academia after teaching for 5 years due to politics. Then, I moved to the Eastside to work in tech.
o I’m currently finishing a book on Phil Mind, and many readers think I should include more in-depth discussions about neuroscience. For example, some want to discuss the congruence between human mental ‘sense’ and the neural connections supporting our simple logical reasoning. Also, I’m going to give a broad review in Consciousness topics as they function in this series of Meetups.

· As an Introduction, this Meetup discusses (at least) these three basic questions:
o 1. Why Does Consciousness exist (or come to be); and can it only be generated by neural processes?
o 2. Do conscious experiences have to be caused by physical phenomena.?
o 3. Can we define human consciousness as a subjective experience?
§ (In the life of our minds’ and identified with the brain.)
· Participants can next also share their different questions, arguments, and opinions.
· We can also begin discussing these questions at a more Intermediate level, by including views of different philosophers such as Nagel and Chalmer. Nagel’s historical question about consciousness and subjective thoughts is: “What is it like to be” in a certain mental state.
· Chalmer mentions of the qualia of a cognitive state or thought. He also considers defining consciousness as a subjective experience (in the life of our minds, as identified with the brain).
· Finally, we could consider Dualism about Consciousness.

Thanks,

Su